skip

/skɪp/ · noun

Meaning

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
Skywave propagation
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To leap about lightly.
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
To place an item in a skip.
A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
A skep, or basket.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
A beehive.
Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
(college slang) A college servant.

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